Why is it so poorly understood who finances those savage acts of terror?

...Under a sliding scale, carefully articulated in the Law of the Prisoner, the more heinous the act of terrorism and the longer the prison sentence, the higher is the salary. Detention for up to three years fetches a salary of almost $400 per month. Prisoners incarcerated between three and five years will be paid about $560 monthly — a compensation level already higher than that for many ordinary West Bank jobs.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
10 November '13..

As if it were not a sufficiently bitter experience to lose a greatly-loved daughter to a cold-blooded act of triumphal terrorist homicide, we and many other Israeli parents of murdered children or partners or parents or siblings have had to cope with an ongoing succession of stinging slaps to the face. Some have been delivered by the political leadership of the Palestinian Arabs. Others have come from much closer to home.

Explaining what this does to an ordinary family like ours has never come easily to us. We write and speak. We make more than average effort to be heard. At a succession of important junctures, we have felt it was terribly important to persuade people that something terrible was happening and needed to be stopped before it was too late, and we have spoken up. But as regular readers of these posts know, it is hard to do, and we have generally failed. We are not alone in this, but that makes it no easier to bear.

One of the exceptionally painful dimensions of the experience we share with thousands of other Israelis is the through-the-looking-glass manner in which the lives of Palestinian Arab prisoners are presented to the outside world. Out there, beyond Israel's borders but also incredibly within them, there is a legion of individuals and political groupings making passionate efforts to have the world buy a bogus argument that says the Palestinian Arab prisoners held by Israel's military and criminal justice system are freedom fighters, noble heroes, held behind bars for lowly political reasons.

This is not one of those posts in which we focus on the hateful evil which those men and women and the psychopathic society that spawned them in fact embody.

Instead, because of the publication of an important new book, we want to share what its author has written about how this sickening charade - in which savage killers of unarmed Israelis and Jews are acclaimed as heroes - works in the Palestinian Arab world. The following are verbatim quotes.

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